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Bernard Joseph “Burt” Amero, VE1AMA of Auburn, Nova Scotia, Canada, passed away Tuesday, May 25, after a long battle with cancer. He was 67. Burt was known worldwide as the founder of “Network 105”. Established in 1986, Network 105 is a global packet radio network that is active today on 14.105 MHz. Burt was also [...]
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This weekend is the CQ WPX CW Contest and conditions may be a little rough. Our current sunspot group 1072 has reached the Sun’s western horizon and is shrinking, and to top it all off, what looked like a possible emerging spot on Wednesday was not to be. There is a stiff solar wind heading [...]
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By Stan Horzepa, WA1LOUContributing EditorMay 28, 2010 This week, Surfin’ kicks the tires on a cool new online HF propagation tool. Jari Perkiömäki, OH6BG, wrote that VOACAP Online, a Web-based propagation prediction application, is now up and running and making HF propagation predictions between any two points on the globe. (VOACAP is arguably one of [...]
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Last month, New Zealand’s Radio Spectrum Management (RSM) — that country’s equivalent of the FCC — charged and fined Alan Potter, ZL3II, of Christchurch, for transmitting outside the terms and conditions of the General User Radio License for Amateur Radio Operators. Potter was charged in the Christchurch District Court on April 14 and found guilty [...]
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Bob Brown, NM7M, of Anacortes, Washington, passed away Sunday, May 23, from cardiac arrest. He was 87. Brown, the husband of former ARRL Northwestern Division Director Mary Lou Brown, NM7N (SK), was known worldwide for his contributions to the propagation studies on 160 meters. Brown wrote 12 articles for the ARRL from 1998-2001 that appeared [...]
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Registration remains open through Sunday, June 20, 2010, for these online course sessions beginning on Friday, July 2, 2010: Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Level 1; Antenna Design and Construction; Propagation; Analog Electronics, and Digital Electronics. Each online course has been developed in segments — learning units with objectives, informative text, student activities and quizzes…. » [...]
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Many hams have long complained about difficulties they have encountered when purchasing International Reply Coupons (IRCs) from their local post offices. Now the US Postal Service (USPS) has made it easier to get those IRCs to send with your direct QSL cards — order them online from the USPS Web site. The USPS ships all [...]
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Lonnie L. Keeney, KB9RFO, of Greencastle, Indiana, filed a Petition for Reconsideration in March 2010, asking that the FCC re-evaluate the revocation of his Amateur Radio license. Keeney — who in 2002 was convicted of child molestation, a Class C felony — was found by the FCC in February 2010 to be “lack[ing] the requisite [...]
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Bill Cross, W3TN, a staff member in the FCC’s Mobility Division — part of the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau — spoke at the FCC Forum on Saturday morning at the 2010 Dayton Hamvention®. Billed by the Hamvention’s Forum Committee as more of an emergency communications discussion, Cross discussed this and other matters — such as FCC [...]
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